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Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes

May 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Got your spellcheck on? Grammar checking your longer posts? Good. So how about typography mistakes? Whaa - ? I hear you cry.
Grammar nazis are so last century. Welcome, friends, to the brave new world of the typography nazi. Below are ten mistakes that everyone makes, an explanation of why each is wrong, and details on [...]

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Security and Protection Plugins for Wordpress

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Now here’s a post that very important to all Wordpress users: The security of your blog. The whole Speckyboy article lists 10 useful plugins that will help to secure your WordPress site.
Just think about it — all your posts, comments and even your theme, GONE. No way to get them back.

Now that you have that [...]

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New WordPress Theme Club

March 7th, 2008 · No Comments

WPDesigner is aiming at making a new kind of WordPress Theme community.
It’s member driven, supported and you can use the themes personally or commercially, just no reselling. The catch? It costs to join the WPDesigner club.
Is it really a catch though?
The fact you have to pay to join means you get paid support, a [...]

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Ideal robots.txt and Sitemap for WordPress

February 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Looking for a good robots.txt file for WordPress? Well here’s a good example, culled from a few different guides around the web and rolled into one file:
example_robots.txt
The crawl delay prevents bots using too much of your site bandwidth by over crawling.
example_sitemap.xml.txt
You can auto generate your basic Sitemap here. Auto generate a 500 page Sitemap here.

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Preparing for the Mobile Browsing Revolution

February 5th, 2008 · No Comments

The iPhone, and to a lesser extent the iPod Touch, has revolutionised Internet access on the go. 80% of iPhone users have taken the device online. Unheard of in smartphone statistics.
What does this mean? The mobile-device (non-laptop) revolution is coming. If your website cannot be easily viewed on a mobile device then now is the [...]

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Website host move nightmare

January 31st, 2008 · No Comments

I have had so much downtime from moving hosts that it is untrue. I’m sorry about the site failures that have been happening since Friday.
This is going to turn into a review / rant about Hostican, the hosting provider I moved to. This is my personal experience of them:
Pretty much as soon as I moved [...]

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Weekend - a move to cutline - Updated x2

December 6th, 2007 · No Comments

This coming weekend I’m moving CR to the Cutline theme. It is nice and clean and has good cross browser support.
Hopefully the transition will be smooth but expect some issues. Post them as you find them and I’ll have them fixed.
Edit: So I did the move right away. Made things easier, will do upgrades on [...]

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Retro MacOS Wordpress Theme

August 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Retro MacOS Wordpress Theme

Tags: art, creationrobot, mac, wordpress

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